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- Andersson, Erik, 1966
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Monies that Matter, on the Discursive Power of the Bank for International Settlements
- 2016
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 13:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its committees perform an increasingly important systemic regulatory role on the global financial markets, as well as for national monetary policies. In this article I argue that the cooperation and coordination among central banks makes this community vital for global discourse formation around monetary policies and financial interaction. The self-image displayed in speeches and evaluations of BIS representatives indicate that the community influences national economies. Using the concept of performativity for analysing the power dynamics of the BIS community, the article argues that cooperating central banks have considerable influence on economic interaction both nationally and globally. The nature of this political influence is not conspiratory or intentional, but embedded in the economistic interaction within and around the BIS.
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- Bachmann, Jan, 1978
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Kenya and International Security: Enabling Globalisation, Stabilising ‘Stateness’, and Deploying Enforcement
- 2012
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 9:1, s. 125-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- On the international stage Kenya promotes itself as a regional peacemaker. The country is an important contributor to UN missions, has had an important role in mediating regional conflicts, and is a driving force in the implementation of Africa’s peace and security architecture. However, there is another picture of Kenya’s engagement in regional conflicts which, at first glance, seems to contradict international perception of the country. By discussing Kenya’s historical and current practices in regional security, this article analyses how the Kenyan government balances what seem to be multiple security agendas, ranging from following a responsibility to protect, to pursuing economic self-interest, to executing international counterterrorism agendas. Rather than being a shift in the country’s foreign policy, it will be argued that Kenya’s involvement in rights and norm-violating practices— more specifically in arms deliveries to Southern Sudan and the illegal military training of youths in defence of the Somali transitional government, as well as repressive ‘counterterrorism’ practices against its own population—illustrates how the conditions of globalisation not only limit but also enable new opportunities for the positioning of postcolonial states in the international arena. It confirms patterns in Kenya’s political history in which the politics of attracting, sustaining, and diversifying international partners and external revenue is part of the regime’s continuing efforts at consolidating ‘stateness’. Actively engaging with international norms to make them comply with one’s own perceptions of security demonstrates how actors in the South shape the terms of reference in regional security.
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- Bäckstrand, Karin, et al.
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Old Wine in New Bottles? The Legitimation and Delegitimation of UN Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the Johannesburg Summit to the Rio+20 Summit
- 2014
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1474-774X .- 1474-7731. ; 11:3, s. 331-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Global public-private partnerships for sustainable development have been framed as new instruments that can increase the democratic credentials and effectiveness of global governance. This article revisits 10 years of scholarship and practice of the 348 Johannesburg partnerships, adopted at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and reaffirmed at the UN Rio+20 summit in 2012. The article analyzes the contending processes of legitimation and delegitimation of partnerships. First, it makes a quantitative assessment of the Johannesburg partnerships to examine to what extent they correspond to the UN's discursive legitimation of partnerships as implementation tools and deliberative mechanisms. Second, drawing upon interviews with civil society and UN officials, we argue that the Rio+20 summit marked the delegitimation of Johannesburg partnerships, aligned with the phase-out of the Commission on Sustainable Development. Yet, the idea of partnerships as such was relegitimized as a symbolic asset. Partnering is a legitimation strategy for UN agencies to maintain their relevance and mission in an era when multilateralism relies on collaboration between state, market, and civil society actors.
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- Eriksson, Johan, Professor, 1967-, et al.
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Worlds apart, worlds together : Converging and diverging frames in climate and energy governance
- 2019
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Routledge. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 16:1, s. 67-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that past research has overlooked how the way problems and solutions are framed contribute to a prevailing gap in the global governance of climate and energy. Empirically, this paper investigates the frames of energy and climate change as expressed in key documents from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and International Energy Agency (IEA). Partly in contrast to past research, this paper finds (1) that there is a growing similarity in how the IPCC and IEA frame climate and energy; (2) that the IEA has gone from ignoring to acknowledging climate change and the transformation to a low-carbon energy system; and (3) that there is a prevailing difference in emphasis, whereas the IPCC only marginally discuss energy, while the IEA is still mainly talking about energy needs and fossil fuels even if climate change and renewables have entered their agenda.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, docent, 1978-, et al.
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Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union
- 2023
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; , s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do international organizations (IOs) and their proponents claim legitimacy, and how do their opponents undermine such legitimacy? This article develops a framework that accounts for the links between legitimation and delegitimation strategies and how they regularly produce ‘legitimation struggles’. Drawing on the case of the African Union between 2015–2020, the study goes beyond existing research in three ways. First, legitimation struggles are not simply related to input and output legitimacy but are deeply related to the social purpose of the organization. Second, legitimation struggles do not only involve IO representatives and member-states but are strengthened by a range of other non-state agents. Third, while discursive strategies are essential, legitimation struggles are reinforced when they are combined with behavioural or institutional legitimation strategies. Future research would do well to go beyond the current Western-centric bias and draw on our findings to investigate legitimation struggles under different conditions around the world.
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- Gregoratti, Catia
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Cracks in the Corporatisation of Feminism
- 2016
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 13:6, s. 922-924
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- Hansen, Peo, 1966-, et al.
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Demographic Colonialism : EU-African Migration Management and the Legacy of Eurafrica
- 2011
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - London och New York : Routledge. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 8:3, s. 261-276
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we analyse the current trajectory of EU-African migration policy. Unlike many other scholars, we suggest it must be understood in its historical context. Migration between Europe and Africa has been a European concern at least since the 1920s. At that time, issues of migration were seen in the context of a co-European colonial effort in Africa. Today, migration issues are to be resolved in the framework of a EU-African partnership model built on equality, interdependence and mutual ‘win-win’ dynamics. However, a closer look at the history of Euro-African migration reveals striking parallels between past and present. Throughout the period from the 1920s and onward, the migration policies devised within various frameworks of European integration have been shaped by demographic projections. Presumed demographic ‘imbalances’ (i.e. population surplus or deficit) have been used to justify vastly different migrant regimes. Each time demography has governed European migration policy vis-à-vis Africa, what has first been introduced as a mutual interest has quickly been transformed into a geopolitical relationship, where one partner has channelled migration to its own benefit. We argue that as long as scholars and intellectuals persist in imitating policy-makers’ disregard of European integration’s colonial history, current structural power asymmetries between the EU and Africa will not only remain obscure; we will also fail to recognize the continued, or even increasing, currency of colonial ideology in the EU’s African relations.
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- Josefsson, Jonathan, 1979-, et al.
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Empowered Inclusion : Theorizing Global Justice for Children and Youth
- 2020
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Routledge. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 17:6, s. 1043-1060
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper argues that contemporary child and youth experiences of globalization call for retheorizing global justice around a new concept of empowered inclusion. The first part of the paper examines three case studies in globalization – child labour movements, child and youth migration, and young people’s organization around climate change – and shows how, in each case, young people, through their struggles against injustice, are simultaneously disempowered and empowered by their deep global interdependency. The second part proposes new theoretical advances in global justice that better respond to child and youth experiences through a childist concept of the empowered inclusion of both children and other marginalized groups. And the third part advances some preliminary suggestions about how a more child-responsive conception of global power and justice might be operationalized in practice across global policies, institutions, and culture.
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